Cindy McCurry-Ross, senior managing editor of The Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press, says the newspaper instilled a ëculture of innovationí with mobile journalists and other efforts. Photo by By Brendan Lowe.
The Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press won APME's first Innovator of the Year award for its "culture of innovation."
-- Rob Tricchinelli, Gazette Staff
More conveage at the 2007 Conference blog.
APME Board election winners: At-Large Directors: Peggy Bellows Jon Broadbooks Adell Crowe Maria Lettman Jan Touney Mark Bowden Joe Garcia Small Newspaper Director: Bob Heisse Online Director: Jim Brady
By Danielle Ulman Gazette Staff Newspapers once struggled to recruit minority reporters, but today the industry is struggling to retain them. Journalists of color are leaving the industry much faster than those entering, said panelists at Thursday's APME/UNITY summit "Improving...
By Dan Lamothe and Kenneth R. Fletcher Gazette Staff Members voted unanimously Friday to assess APME editors $150 per year in dues, the first time the association has attempted to collect dues in its 74-year history. The decision was approved...
By Anju Kaur Gazette Staff WASHINGTON - The most unusual presidential election in history will require journalists to cover it in the most innovative ways, panelists said at Friday's APME session "Election 2008: Get Ready It's Sooner than You Think."...
Diversity Session By Arelis Hernandez Across the country, newsrooms are losing minority journalists at an alarming rate to industries outside journalism, leaders of national minority journalists' organizations said at Friday's APME/UNITY Summit. The changing newsroom, they say, has put diversity...
By Raechal Leone APME Gazette An overwhelming majority of editors and the public agree the content on news Web sites is just as credible as what they read in newspapers, according to highlights of a study released Friday. They also...
Editors raised about $18,000 in APME's live and silent auctions, according to Suki Dardarian, APME Foundation president. The donations are still being tallied but the number will only grow, Dardarian said. The president said she was pleased with the total,...
By Michael Walsh Gazette Staff Newsrooms nationwide are producing quality journalism, despite budget cuts and funding shortages, said APME President Karen Magnuson. And the industry must work even harder to continue the trend toward excellence, she said. At the APME...
By Rob Tricchinelli Gazette Staff MoJos, microsites, crowdsourcing and Team Watchdog. The buzzwords flew, the editors voted, and The Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press won APME's first Innovator of the Year award for its "culture of innovation." The News-Press was the...
APME is hoping that what happens in Vegas next year stays with you. Organizers expect about 1,000 journalists to gather at the Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa from Sept. 7-10, 2008. Those who show will help celebrate APME's 75th...
Election day 2008 is 13 months away, but the campaigns are already rolling and the first primary is in January. Editors from several bureaus in Washington, D.C., discussed the upcoming presidential election, how the media are handling the online boom...
Panelists at the "Multimedia Lessons from a National Tragedy" session recalled their early coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, adding this became "the first true multimedia news event," as Carole Tarrant of the The Roanoke (Va.) Times called it. The...
Journalists of color are leaving newsrooms and the newspaper industry as a whole. And recent cutbacks in newsrooms nationwide have only exaccerbated the decrease. That's the message sent by an afternoon panel led by APME President Karen Magnuson and UNITY...
APME President Karen Magnuson discussed the organization's recent successes and future at the APME Awards luncheon Friday. She told attendees about the board's goal of raising $146,000 this past year, a bar she said she was worried about meeting because...
The annual APME awards were presented today at a luncheon to honor the work of reporters, photographers and newsrooms throughout the country. Awards given at the lunch included: Robert G. McGruder Diversity Award Wanda Lloyd, executive editor of The Montgomery...
What single development do you think made the biggest impact on the news industry? "It's a jump ball between the telegraph and Internet. Both resulted in profound change. The telegraph sped up the news, and of course now with the...
A panel discussion today on the Freedom of Information Act dealt with struggles in seeking and obtaining public documents. Lucy Dalglish, executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, David Burnham, co-director of the Transactional Records Access...
What single development do you think made the biggest impact on the news industry? "The instant access to not just a plethora of sources but raw databases dramatically reshaped not only the business but the world as well." Robert Blau,...
The Washington Times booth is exhibiting a prototype program called "Inside Track." The program will provide four pages of content to subscribing newspapers, covering topics like politics and international news.
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